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jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
> barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
> 
>>What happens if you dump some antimatter into a black 
>>hole that formed from normal matter? Does it 'cancel out' part of it?
>>Or, if I take two black holes, one made from ordinary matter
>>and the other made from anti-matter, and merge them, what happens?
>>Do I get a bigger black hole, or are they somehow annihilated?
> 
> Nobody has ever done these experiments so we don't know.
> 
> There - see? - I can act like a wet-blanket experimentalist just as well
> as the next guy!  It *is* worth noting, though, that we're talking about
> some heavy-duty extrapolations beyond what has been seen, and there are
> some very fishy points lurking in this issue.

This comment reminds me of one of my favourite quotes which I like to
spring on the Relativity Group here.  They are all mathematicians; I am
the token physicist.  But I digress :)

``First you have speculation.  Then you have *wild* speculation.  Then
you have cosmology.''

Source unknown.

-- 
Joe Voros
Department of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia.

Quantum Mechanics is God's way of telling you to mind your P_i's and Q_j's.